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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11657, 23 October 1923, Page 6

Hairdressers in New York will promably do less damage to the haar of some of their clients as a result of the forming of a State Ptermanent Hair ■Wavers’ Association by 42 leading wavers of New York. . The chief objective of the organisation is to have all people in this profession licensed to practise after passing examinations of a State Board. lne association will stand for: State examinations for all operatiies; establishment of waving schools controlled by tbe association; placing of association emblems in th*> windows of all members as a guar an tee of safety; the distinct and definite discouragement of the practice of pet manent waving by carpenters, masons, taxi-drivers, and other so-called incompetents who happen to become unemployed.

The new president of the Sydney Lyceum Club is a well-known Auckland lady, Mre Robert Williams, who was formerly Miss Edith Clarke, daughter of the late Mr S. I. Clarke, and brings to the position both distinguished literary as well as social qualifications. Mrs Williams has been convenor of the Literary Study Circle of the club for some time past, and her knowledge of general literature has been of great assistance to the members (says the “Sydney Mornig Herald”). She is a Ranfurly Medallist of the New Zealand University, and studied with Rudolph Steiner, Doctor of Philosophy, Vienna, leaving Europe just before the war. Mrs Williams has travelled in Java and the Northern Territory, and her lectures on these places ore always greatly enjoyed. She has taken an active interest in Imperial trade and immigration, and was secretary of tho National Economy Association* of Australia.